Actually, I don't think celebrity alone is enough to fluster me. Any geekiness I've shown when talking to actors is my own true personality showing through, not nerves-induced embarrassment. It may be because sex appeal is a big part of their mystique, whereas I'm not resistant to the more cerebrally based admiration of writing talent.
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.
'Serenity'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 03, 2005 3:53:43 pm PDT #4561 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Dana - Oct 03, 2005 3:57:08 pm PDT #4562 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I made a huge fool of myself talking to Nathan Fillion last year and Tricia Helfer this year. I did better with Adam Baldwin (because I'd already cried on Tricia Helfer.)
Stephanie - Oct 03, 2005 3:58:14 pm PDT #4563 of 10001
Trust my rage
OLN had this "Ride with Lance (Armstrong)" thing you could win during the Tour de France. It sounded really cool but the whole idea of a world class cyclist being forced to ride with me for an afternoon sounded really unappealing.
Zenkitty - Oct 03, 2005 4:01:07 pm PDT #4564 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Heck, I'm a babbling geek even when talking to non-celebrity types. I know I'd embarrass myself trying to talk to a person whose work I admired. Of course, part of the problem is finding something that's at all meaningful to say in about 30 seconds. I have to rehearse just to have phone conversations with friends, for heaven's sake.
Jesse - Oct 03, 2005 4:13:07 pm PDT #4565 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I feel like talking on the phone to someone you don't know is especially weird, since there's no visual, and nothing to talk about except what you think up.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2005 4:21:11 pm PDT #4566 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am convinced I was dorkily fannish to AD at the premiere, by mentioning that I was traumatised by the deaths at the end of Angel. Other than that, I can back away in time to save myself.
Kristen - Oct 03, 2005 4:23:21 pm PDT #4567 of 10001
I spent many a fan event actively avoiding certain people for fear of the nervous incoherent babbling.
Cashmere - Oct 03, 2005 4:24:11 pm PDT #4568 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I am Dorkus Surpremous--enough so that I avoid fan-type events for the most part because I WILL make an ass out of myself. I'm a stammering idiot.
Betsy HP - Oct 03, 2005 5:10:22 pm PDT #4569 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
It sounded really cool but the whole idea of a world class cyclist being forced to ride with me for an afternoon sounded really unappealing.
I would be sorely tempted to show up on a Schwinn with a wicker basket on the handlebars and streamers.
Jesse - Oct 03, 2005 5:10:30 pm PDT #4570 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And there's no backing away on the phone!